Research Methods

10 cards·by dakka98

Informed consent involves:

the participant's ability to agree to take part in the study.

Experimental and quasi-experimental designs are useful in the context of __________, whereas case studies, naturalistic observation, and cor

discovery, justification

Experiments have several advantages over other research methods. Among them are:

replication and the establishment of cause and effect.

After a study I conducted, the results show a correlation of zero between the two variables. This means that:

two variables are unrelated.

A research assistant is assigned the task of watching and recording the interactions between members of a koala family on an Australian plan

naturalistic observation.

I decide to simply describe behaviour rather than to manipulate variables. Therefore, I should use which type of research?

Descriptive

I'm afraid that participants will not be reading the questions of my survey so I intentionally ask the same question more than once (in a di

Internal consistency

Quantifying teachers' observations by asking them to rate boys on an 18-item scale was used by Rodkin et al. (2000) to:

measure the boys' popularity with their peers

In an experiment to test the effects of anxiety on memory performance, the independent variable is:

anxiety.

To operationalise the variables means to:

turn abstract concepts into concrete variables that are defined by some set of actions or operations.